Thread: Why is the N900 image size so small?
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2009-12-13 , 23:37
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Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
And as I said this is most likely NOT a software related issue, there is only so much that can be done in software (if I get another idiot emailing me about my camera app in Android not having a flash - Like I can code a goddamn flash into your phone when it doesnt have one - I may lose my mind). There may be tweaks that can be applied via software, image format and compression etc. But ultimately we are talking about a small aperture and most likely a small sensor as well. Remember this is a PHONE - the camera part is a small component in an otherwise large set of them. Comparing it to a dedicated camera etc is pointless.
I understand perfectly that a flash is not software related... that baffles me that people were emailing you to code a flash????

However, as you just specified.. the software can control compression ratio and image formatting. So an option to save taken images in Raw, PNG, JPG, or X percent compression are all software related requests.. are they not?

And I would never expect a phone to take the same quality picture as an actual camera. But a lot of the complaints in this thread seem not related to hardware capabilities, but file-sizes and compression ratios.. which seem software related to me.

Now, I have neither the N900 nor an N95 or any N** device.. but I see people saying the N**'s camera is better than the N900's camera.. If these comparisons are being made simply because of end-result images that they are looking at side by side.. this could very well be in how the N** software saves it's images vs the N900's. Unless someone has the actual hardware capabilities spec sheets of both cameras to compare side-by-side, as you pointed out, using more than just "5MP == 5MP" which is incorrect.
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